The study of biogeography and paleoecology during the Mesozoic-Cenozoic era provides essential insights into how past ...

"Each new detection brings us closer to understanding the origins of complex organic chemistry in the universe — and perhaps, the origins of the building blocks of life themselves." ...

Fusulines thrived in cold seas but vanished twice when warming from volcanoes rapidly spiked ocean carbon levels.

Canadian scientists found the oldest known rocks on Earth - dating back 4.16 billion years - shedding light on our planet’s ...

Modern-day environments in Antarctica contain ponds filled with life forms that closely resemble early multicellular ...

Yet some regions are far enough from tectonic plate boundaries to contain rocks that have remained unchanged for billions of ...

If the new age of these Canadian rocks is solid, they would be the first and only ones known to have survived Earth’s earliest, tumultuous time.

The Cambrian explosion was an extraordinary phenomenon in the evolution of life on the planet that led to the emergence of ...